Armies of heaven : the First Crusade and the quest for apocalypse / Jay Rubenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubenstein, Jay, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades--First, 1096-1099.

Crusades.

Military history, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At Moson, the river Danube ran red with blood. At Antioch, the Crusaders? their saddles freshly decorated with sawed-off heads?indiscriminately clogged the streets with the bodies of eastern Christians and Turks. At Ma'arra, they cooked children on spits and ate them. By the time the Crusaders reached Jerusalem, their quest?and their violence? had become distinctly otherworldly: blood literally ran shin-deep through the streets as the Crusaders overran the sacred city. Beginning in 1095 and culminating four bloody years later, the First Crusade represented a new kind of warfare: holy,

Contents:

Jerusalem, on earth as it is in heaven

The Pope's plan

The response: the princes, the prophets, the people

The road to Constantinople

Deals with devils: the crusaders at Constantinople

The Nicene deal

Saracens, through a glass darkly

Enemy country

Starvation and nightmare: the siege of Antioch begins

A brief account of Baldwin of Boulogne's adventures in Syria

Reversal of fortune and a river of blood: the battle for Antioch continues

Truce and consequences: the fall of Antioch

Violent men

Kerbogah and the lance

Feasting on the fallen: Antioch to Maarat

Trial by fire

Seeking a new apocalypse

Jerusalem

The last emperor

Ascalon, the sixth battle

The never-ending apocalypse.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-74565-0

9786613789877

0-465-02748-2

OCLC:

761646093